Nowadays, Timmins said, they pitch their case using the mailer and Facebook campaigns. NorthamptonвЂ™s donation goal this year is once again $60,000 and AmherstвЂ™s goal is to exceed its total from last year.Д«efore COVID-19, Barberet said, UMass Amherst students involved in Greek life would volunteer and go door to door asking for donations. In Amherst, the Shelter Sunday drive raised $30,000 last year, with proceeds split 50-50 between CraigвЂ™s Doors and Not Bread Alone, a community meal program with the Center for Human Development. The coalition consists of ServiceNet, which runs the community shelter Grove Street Inn, Friends of Hampshire County Homeless, which runs the Interfaith Emergency Shelter alongside ServiceNet, and Manna Community Kitchen. The drive surpassed its goal of $60,000 last year, which was split evenly among the three organizations in the Shelter Sunday Coalition. Timmins said the event вЂњhas always been about a lot of people giving,вЂќ referencing the broad community support the Northampton drive has received over its 30-year history. Timmins explained that local church leaders will call attention to the drives on these days. Timmins said the Northampton drive has a mailing list of 23,000, including residents of Northampton, Florence, Leeds and Easthampton.Дenise Barberet of CraigвЂ™s Doors, a nonprofit shelter in Amherst, said the Amherst area driveвЂ™s mailing list is expected to reach 11,000 residents in Amherst, Hadley, Pelham, Leverett, and Shutesbury.ДЄlthough donations will continue to be accepted through the end of the year, Northampton will begin its drive on Sunday, Oct. People who wish to donate can do so on the Northampton and Amherst Shelter Sunday websites or by mail, using donation forms included in community-wide brochures that will be sent out in advance. NORTHAMPTON - The annual Shelter Sunday drives in Northampton and Amherst will continue their virtual approach this year with high fundraising goals to support the local homeless and hungry.ДЄmy Timmins, vice president of community relations at ServiceNet, said the event вЂњevolved into more of a virtual campaignвЂќ after social distancing measures prevented in-person canvassing last year.

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